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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Social gravity: a virtual elastic tether for casual, privacy-preserving pedestrian rendezvous
We describe a virtual “tether” for mobile devices that allows groups to have quick, simple and privacy-preserving meetups. Our design provides cues which allow dynamic coordin...
John Williamson, Simon Robinson, Craig Stewart, Ro...
CCGRID
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Efficient resource description and high quality selection for virtual grids
Simple resource specification, resource selection, and effective binding are critical capabilities for Grid middleware. We the Virtual Grid, an abstraction for dynamic grid applic...
Yang-Suk Kee, D. Logothetis, Richard Y. Huang, Hen...
VRST
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Shake-your-head: revisiting walking-in-place for desktop virtual reality
The Walking-In-Place interaction technique was introduced to navigate infinitely in 3D virtual worlds by walking in place in the real world. The technique has been initially devel...
Léo Terziman, Maud Marchal, Mathieu Emily, ...
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Physically large displays improve path integration in 3D virtual navigation tasks
Previous results have shown that users perform better on spatial orientation tasks involving static 2D scenes when working on physically large displays as compared to small ones. ...
Desney S. Tan, Darren Gergle, Peter Scupelli, Rand...
OSDI
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Optimizing the Migration of Virtual Computers
This paper shows how to quickly move the state of a running computer across a network, including the state in its disks, memory, CPU registers, and I/O devices. We call this state...
Constantine P. Sapuntzakis, Ramesh Chandra, Ben Pf...